Missionaries France Tim and Di Keener Biography

PRESENT MINISTRY
Tim and Di were appointed as career missionaries in December 2001. They moved to Albertville, France, in December 2003 to begin language study. In December 2004 they moved to Nantes, France, where they are continuing their language study at the University of Nantes.

They are working with FWB ministriesin the Brittany area.

CONVERSION
Tim was saved and baptized at the age of six in his home church in Westerville, Ohio. He committed to full-time missionary service while on a summer missions trip to the Ivory Coast during his college years.

Di came to know Christ when she was seven years old at her home church in Cleveland, Ohio. She committed to mission work during her sophomore year of Bible college.

EARLY MINISTRY
The Keeners spent several years before their missionary appointment working with the Franklin Free Will Baptist Church in Franklin, Tenn. Tim and Di both enjoy singing and have worked in several other areas of ministry including teaching and children’s ministry. Before their first son was born, Di worked for the Tennessee Baptist Convention in Brentwood, Tenn., as a Ministry Assistant in the Youth Evangelism department. Tim worked for three years as the financial coordinator at a Christian media agency in Antioch, Tenn.

After their appointment as missionaries, Tim and Di traveled to churches in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina, Missouri and California to share about their burden for France. Shortly before moving to France they moved back to their home state of Ohio where Tim was ordained as a Free Will Baptist minister.

CHILDREN
Timothy Eli was born July 12 in Nashville, Tenn.
Ethan Walsh was born May 3 in Albertville, France.

Ezekiel Lee was born February 17 in Nantes, France
Noah Emery was born November 29 in Nantes, France

HOME CHURCH
Freedom FWB Church in Plain City, Ohio